What’s your favourite computer security blog?

Every year, during the RSA Conference, the fine folks at the Security Bloggers Network get together at a sports bar in San Francisco, and over a few beers and some pizza catch up with their fellow bloggers.

And if the booze, pool tables and crudites wasn’t enough to entice them, there is also the chance that they might win a gong at the annual Social Security Blogger Awards which will be announced during the evening’s festivities.

I’m chuffed to bits that grahamcluley.com has been nominated in two categories (Most Entertaining Security blog and Most Educational Security blog), and if any of you deem my site worthy of a vote.

And if you vote for anyone else, well.. I’ll sign you up on Ashley Madison. :)

Even if you aren’t interested in voting (Did I mention that it’s quick and painless, and that you can ignore the question about your website URL if you don’t run your own security blog?), you may still want to check out who has made the shortlist because there are some great blogs out there tackling computer security and privacy.

Certainly when I made my way down the list I saw that there were a couple that I had never heard of before, and that I’ll be sure to add to my RSS feed reader to make sure I don’t miss any of their future posts.

Here are the finalists in each category of the Security Blogger Awards 2016, in no particular order:

Ah yes. The old celebrity that is Steve Gibson. Steve Gibson the charlatan. I really wish people would wake up to this reality. The evidence is out there it's just people blindly believe whatever they see/hear/etc. – and are unable (or refuse) to actually think on their own. His broken SYN cookies is a really good example yet there are many others. He's only good at fooling many people. And that is something he's really good at. Obviously. It's also unfortunate.

I agree that it's odd not to see Brian Krebs nominated in at least one of the categories – as he's such an influential figure in the security blogging space. He has done well in previous awards, so not sure why he's not there this time.